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development of organ

...two principal builders had both been abroad during the Commonwealth (Bernard Smith in Germany or Holland and Renatus Harris in France), their British work owed little to foreign influence. Only the
Great Organ had a complete diapason chorus, and the Choir, or Chayre, organ usually extended upward only to a single two-foot. Almost every organ had a cornet, and the reeds in common use were...